Jacob Kriss

Major: Computer Science · Minor: Management and Business

• Develop and maintain an internal CRM using Python and React, building features for client management and workflow automation.
• Manage production infrastructure on Railway and Render using Docker and GitHub Actions, implementing PostgreSQL database synchronization and disaster recovery systems.
• Build an LLM-powered code auditing system that constructs a shared codebase ontology through engineer-guided analysis, enabling independent agents to detect and resolve architectural contradictions before code is merged.

• Refactored Go and TypeScript backend APIs and workflows to simplify data handling and improve reliability.
• Helped establish GitHub workflow, code review, and CI/CD guardrails to improve maintainability in a fast-moving startup environment.

• Developed and maintained robotic process automations in UiPath and C# to streamline operations and improve data accuracy.
• Refactored existing automations for greater reliability and performance, integrating dynamic logging and exception handling systems.
• Implemented OCR-based email parsing and helped to train machine learning models for communications mining, enabling more dynamic automation workflows.

• Taught machine learning courses covering foundational concepts in Python, TensorFlow/Keras, NumPy, and data preprocessing.
• Guided students through the development of hands-on projects, including neural networks and multithreaded applications.

• Built a full-stack fact-checking application that extracts factual claims from user-provided text and evaluates them against reputable academic and scientific sources.
• Designed a hybrid RAG pipeline that fetches source material, chunks documents, caches Voyage API embeddings, and ranks retrieved evidence passages using semantic similarity and lexical overlap.

• Built a secure terminal-based chat application in Go with a self-hosted architecture and encrypted communication.
• Designed a custom TCP communication layer with payload framing, request-response synchronization, and persistent connections.
• Developed a terminal UI using the Bubble Tea framework, implementing structured message handling and session management.

• Built a full-stack application to record entries, aggregate statistics, and help users identify behavioral trends across customizable time frames.

• Built a full-stack application around a custom image compression algorithm originally developed for a dynamic programming algorithms assignment.